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gangs are stereotyped as being dangerous, and it is fair because gangs all try to live up to that stereotype as much as possible

TOO MUCH STEREOTYPES TOWARDS GANGS....LIKE HERE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.....JUST FOR SAGGIN UR PANTS....RITE AWAY.....UR LABELED A GANGMEMBER BY THE 5-0....OR BY ANYONE....I MEAN YEA GANGS ARE BAD NO DOUBT ABOUT DAT.....BUT SUMTIMES ITS NOT THE PERSONS FAULT THEY WERE RAISED DAT WAY OR EXPOSED TO GANGS....BUT ALSO THERE ARE MANY OG'Z DAT HAVE DONE ALOT FOR THEIR COMMUNITY.....YEA THEY DONE ALOT BAD.....BUT HAVE SEEN 2 MUCH DAT THEY DONT WANT THEIR FAMILY AND CLOSE ONES TO SUFFER LIKE THEY DID.....THEY TRY TO MAKE IT BETTER FOR US YOUNGER GENERATION CHICANOS....THE WAY I SEE IS....U LEARN FROM UR MISTAKES....AND TRY TO GET UR WORD OUT TO THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS TO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE AS U.....

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